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Archive for April, 2012

Today we began using the verb schenken to describe giving gifts to people.

it is a regular verb weak verb and follows the normal verb conjugation rules:

Ich schenke

Du schenkst

Er, sie, es schenkt

Wir schenken

Ihr schenkt

Sie, sie schenken

Important Tip Remember in Geman:

das Gift ≠ the gift

das gift =

das Geschenk =

Unless you really want to with something

But that’s totally up to you!

Now that we have the “false friends” cleared up with a very important word that is NOT a cognate, we have to know that the verb we are focusing on this chapter takes TWO different objects!! Yup that’s right – a direct object and an indirect object. To find out what they are keep reading!

We started out by making a list of words in a varied KWL Chart like this:

Was kann ich sagen? – das Auto, das Buch, und so weiter

Was möchte ich sagen? – things students would like to have as gifts.

Was muss ich lernen? – what do they need to know – necessarily for the chapter.

A photo of the words we came up with will be attached to this blog post.

Now here are the grammar charts we used today:

“der” words

r

e

s

e

n

e

s

e

m

r

m

n

Masculine

Feminine

Neuter

Plural

“ein” words

X

e

X

e

n

e

X

e

m

r

m

n

Masculine

Feminine

Neuter

Plural

These charts show the endings on all the “der” words and all the “ein” words (like mein, dein, kein, sein, all the possessive pronouns etc….)

The first row is for the nominative case – or the subject of the sentence

The second row is for the accusative case – or the direct object of the sentence

The third row is for the dative case – or the indirect object of the sentence

Like this:

We began the week with chapter 11-2 in our books which deals with invitations to party’s and holidays, ordinal numbers and months (which we covered before) and sayings for birthdays and holidays – see the attached photos for the vocab and how to use the verb einladen (to invite)

This week: if you class is scheduled for the PSSA – we will be doing a culture activity on German music – block 1 is Wed, block 2 is Thurs.
On the opposite day we will be doing workbook exercises, a comic book activity, a speaking activity and normal chapter work. The quiz will be on Friday!